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art s Stable Economy. It should be read by the &quot;farmer ; and 

 just as much by every man, of whatever calling, who uses a 

 horse, or owns one. It is of standard authority in England. 

 Mr. Stewart has long been a professor in veterinary institutes. 

 Every man ought to know how to treat a sick horse. Sup 

 pose a horse to be taken sick on a journey ; most frequently 

 the driver is the only one at hand to prescribe. If you are 

 at a tavern, of what use, generally speaking, are the brag 

 ging pretensions of those that crowd around you ? Stop 

 ping for a night at a wretched hole of a tavern, one of my 

 horses, at night fell sick. I knew no more than a child 

 what to do ; the landlord (ah me ! I shall never forget him !) 

 was equally ignorant and much more indifferent. A big, 

 bragging, English booby was the only one pretending to 

 know what to do ; and to him I yielded the animal. After 

 sundry manipulations punching him in the loins ; pulling 

 at his ears, etc. he rolled up a wad of hair from his tail, 

 and crammed it down the horse s throat! presuming, I 

 suppose, that the hair would find its way back to the place 

 it came from, and so pilot the disease out! I inwardly 

 resolved never to go another journey until in possession 

 of the best remedies for the attacks common to horses on 

 the road. 



PREPARING CUTTINGS IN THE FALL. Cuttings of the 

 currant, gooseberry, and grape are better if cut immedi 

 ately on the fall of the leaf, plunged into moist sand two- 

 thirds of their length, and placed in a cellar. If nature is 

 as propitious to others as she has been to us, the cuttings 

 will be found in the spring with the granulations completed 

 at the lower end, and the roots just ready to push ; and on 

 being planted out, they grow off immediately, forming dur 

 ing the season well established plants. 



